Baidu and Nokia collaboration
By Dusan Belic on Friday, March 17th, 2006 at 6:28 AM PST In Mobile Web, Nokia, Partnerships, Symbian
Few days after Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) announced a collaboration with Google, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Baidu.com, the leading Chinese language Internet search provider (partly owned by Google (NSDQ: GOOG)), and Nokia today announced that they are collaborating to make mobile search easier and more convenient in Chinese-speaking markets.
As a result of this collaboration between Baidu and Nokia, users of the Nokia Mobile Search Application on the high-end Nokia N70, Nokia N90 and other select Symbian OS S60 Nokia devices, will be able to access Baidu wireless search services via a search icon on the screen.
Four of Baidu’s most popular services, including Web Search, News Search, Image Search and Baidu Post Bar, a popular Baidu online community invented by Baidu, are provided in the application.
Finally, a free download of this pilot application will be available from today for select Nokia devices in mainland China from www.nokia.com/mobilesearch.
